Improvement in stationery furniture



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ADALINE DQHIBBS, OF TRENTON. NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 102,398, dated April 26, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN STATIONERY FURNITURE.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADALINE D. Hines, of Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Ink-Caster; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of thes an1e,'reference being vhad to the accompanying drawings .which form a part of these specifications.

My invention relates to devices for the use of clerks and professional men; and consists 'in the consti-uciA tion of an apparatus somewhat resembling a tablecaster, but adapted for clerical use, by associating and arranging in a novel and convenient form a table-bell and a rotating disk, upon a pedestal in which said disk is arranged, a series of openings for holding. pens, i'nkstands, shot-cup, mucilage-bottle, and the like, together with removable cups which serve alternately as .receptacles for sponge, rubber, strings, wafers, postage-stamps, and other small articles of stationery, and as covers for ink-stands, shot-cups, and other recepta-n cles requiring such covers that appertain to the wants The letter a represents small perforations through the disk, which are intended to hold pens in vertical positions.

The letter H represents removable cups arranged in the disk B, which are respectively adapted to serve as receptacles for small articles of stationery, such as rubber bands, sponge, wafers, postage-stamps, or

sand, and also as covers for ink-stands, shot-cups, and' other like devices, usually found upon the desks o clerks or professional men or merchants.

The standard Gis aiiixed and made removable from the pedestal by means of the thread upon its lower end, and the nut n connected therewith as shown.

The belll) is connected with and made removable from the standard by means of the thread s-.ou the lower end of its shankworking into a corresponding screw in the top of' the standard.

I'do not claim, broadly, a clerks caster arranged with a revolving disk, for I ani aware the discovery that' such an article is desirable is not original with me, but, v

What I do claim as ,my invention, is

rlhe clerks caster herein described, having rotating disk B, adjustable standard C, and bell` D, the said disk being constructed with openings a, and having removable cups H, when all the parts are arranged substantially as and for the purposes specied.-

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. r

ADALINE D. HIBBS. y

Witnesses D. T. PITTENGER, Frmxors SNOWDEN. 

